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Monday, February 4, 2008

seattle aquarium

i really have bad videos. i don't care though.

Sunday, February 3, 2008

hit me with your best shot

that's the one song that played on wii's guitaro/rio? today.

weekend was exhausting!

today, we had nfl and wii weekend. shana, the network training manager from the client's side drove us to puyallap, another city that's almost adjacent to tacoma. i love the downtown area is cuz it is a bit old school and rustic and the road to the suburbs is breath-taking! this country is just beautiful. and we drove past thru a railroad cuz we were waiting for the train to get thru so we can get thru.

i got to play boxing against the general manager's lovely wife(who btw is a filipina who's born and raised here)and won. i lost the game to josh. haha. then played bowling, then mario brothers- the wii version with the kids, gabby and ryan.

and did some baby sitting for chera's baby. ohhhhhhhhh gawd, baby envy is honestly killing me now.

a mixture of rain and snow poured today too. but, it just stopped.

ohhhhhh man, i am sooooo full. food was great. there are all sorts of salads, veggie sticks, sodas, coffee, burgers, hotdogs, ham sandwiches, all sorts of chip, pretzels, dips, cookies, cheesecake, cocktails. grovers.

and we'd never had to wait for the food. cuz it's just there.

i had fun. and i'm like soooo in touch with my "nurturing skills" cuz i had spent most of my time with the kids. hehe.

seattle yesterday. before i got my bum all drunk, we were up early and visited seattle with arabella, who is one of the kewlest people here. she patiently played tour guide and props to her cuz we got to see pike's place market, the first ever starbucks in the world-jammed and too small, places that sold just soaps, lavender everything, vintage mags, all sorts of curiosities, at touristy prices. so i did not get any souvenirs cuz they're pricey.

we had brunch at a restaurant where one had to really wait til they get seated. ;p i forgot the name of the resto, but, it has a pretty good view of the harbor at pike's.

then we went to seattle aquarium. i love it there. but, nothing can top the northwest trek experience.

we had "lunch" at krispy kremes and saw how they made their doughnuts. met a filipino family who seemed excited to see us. and a nice couple lemme hold there 1 year old. ;p

then we had ppl over at the hotel for chips/booze/dinner. sam/arabella/dowanna showed up. i had the most fun i could ever have cuz i know back home, i wouldn't want to go drinking. the hang over is not a happy thing to have.

i woke up sooooo hung over and had to take a couplah aspirin. and i still had to make pasta or the pasta sauce for the nfl sunday.

God has been soooo good to my family. i am happy we will have a tiny tiny bundle of joy the last quarter of the year. i know, this is supposed to be a secret. i am elated.

and one day soon, i know we will have just one city. and my whole family will be together. at times it sucks to be allover the country.

i am sooo ready to be home. and yeah, i got a baby penguin from judy, the manager's wife. it's the nicest gift i had sooo far.. cuz you can plug an mp3 to it and it will serve as a speaker. kewlness.

will upload 1 million photos.

muchlove,

raen

gelo

i love you more than anythin' else in the world.

some vodka

am drunk as i write.

i love the ppl i met here.

i love arabella and samantha and terence and dowanna and danielle and the freak guys from bacolod.

i'll miss the easy does it life. promesse. cacherelle. if he loves me back home, he'd be ok with me being drunk like this.

today. cuervo orange/ apple snhappes/lime juice/ russian vodka. and marlboro blue and milwaukee beer..

Friday, February 1, 2008

commonplace.

"If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place." - Nora Roberts

i feel awfully pms-harrassed today.. or i've been in this mode since yesterday. aside from that i'm down with the colds and a huge head ache right after class. but, finally!!! we graduated and will be home on monday or maybe tuesday the week after next. waiting for the final test results is pure torture. but, i got two mistakes. 94% akitch. so, it's like being the in the honors list still. ;p

we had lunch at this fancy chinese/indian restaurant indochine, our tab boiled down to $420!!! sobrang grover. then we had our graduation rites.

and i took a call after lunch. it was horrible. that person might not book travel thru us because he thinks OA-ly..

i feel odd cuz i cannot seem to accept the fact that my littlest baby sister is turning into a grown up na talaga. and she is her own little person who would make decisions for herself. and we'd never get to live in one city. it's inevitable, i know. but, maybe shobe can turn in the best gift for holidays 2008 if all things would work well. anyway, the God we grew up to know is a loving God who'd turn in the best things out of worry-some situations.

i love you shobe.

this would be our last full weekend in washington. i'm glad that i got here. to see things, to have some questions answered. to think. to study. to shop. to simply be away.

i'll miss danielle. but, she'll prolly wind up with a better and more enjoyable job that's not travel. i just thought that she seemed to be one of the most genuine and most affable people i've met in my lifetime. and there was never a moment that i was insincere when i talk to her.

gawd, i am horribly ill. and we have to be up for seattle tomorrow. and would have this little send off party - booze and cheese and chips at the hotel after dinner.. we're doing it the PI way. ;p and there's nfl sunday and wii and then there's a whole week of calls. sighs.

much love.